re: #634 Obdicut

This is where you’re wrong. Many thick accents are easier to understand for people who themselves have thick accents.

What I am saying is that if you have a class of kids who are first-generation and mainly speak Spanish, it is entirely possible, mostly based on the research in the Canadian system and the Welsh systems, that someone who speaks English with a strong accent is actually a superior teacher of the language independent of accent.

Now, in terms of whether or not that teacher will also, despite teaching them better, also teach them that accent and hinder better pronunciation absorbed through assimilation I don’t know, but there is no reason to believe it would be so from anything I have seen.

THAT was a great reply. i’m still pondering it.

(is MACDONALD around to take notes??)